Climate change and anthropogenic food manipulation interact in shifting the distribution of a large herbivore at its altitudinal range limit
Abstract Ungulates in alpine ecosystems are constrained by winter harshness through resource limitation and direct mortality from weather extremes. However, little empirical evidence has definitively established how current climate change and other anthropogenic modifications of resource availabilit...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-04-01
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Series: | Scientific Reports |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86720-2 |